Tom Wopat, left, John Schneider and Catherine Bach starred in the popular late '70s and early '80s CBS series "The Dukes of Hazzard," which also featured a vintage Dodge Charger with a Confederate flag on the roof -- a detail that may have led TVLand to stop running re-runs of the show.
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Them Duke boys and their General Lee have been banished from TVLand, a network spokesperson tells the New York Post, but the network declined to say whether the Confederate-flag emblazoned Dodge Charger that served as the most potent symbol of "The Dukes of Hazzard" (other than Daisy Duke's Daisy Dukes, that is) was the reason.

The CBS action series, starring Tom Wopat and John Schneider as good-hearted, hard-driving brothers constantly at odds with the inept sheriff and greedy mayor of fictional Hazzard County, Ga., aired for seven seasons starting in 1979. TVLand aired reruns on weekday afternoons.

According to a Change.org petition asking that "The Dukes of Hazzard" be reinstated, the show was "about family values, fighting corruption, helping friends, neighbors and even strangers ... no matter what color they were." The petition had nearly 2,000 signatures as of early Wednesday afternoon.

In the wake of the shootings at Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church by a man linked to white supremacist views, black leaders called for the Confederate flag that flies on the state capitol grounds to be removed once and for all, and some political leaders who previously defended the flag have agreed it should come down. Opponents say the flag honors Confederate soldiers and is a symbol of Southern heritage.

The Roseland-based Annin Flagmakers, the oldest flagmaker in the United States, announced last month that it would stop production of the Stars and Bars. Wal-Mart and Amazon both said they would also not sell the Confederate flag.